Interview: the architects behind the phenomenally popular High Line park in New York have spoken to Dezeen about how the project has changed the city and why attempts to recreate the idea in other places might struggle. More about The High Line is a "pulling-back from architecture" say Diller and Scofidio
Dutch Design Week 2014: Netherlands-based multidisciplinary artist Helmut Smits has developed a device for "a world in which drinking water can be harder to come by than Coca-Cola". More about Helmut Smits' The Real Thing turns Coca-Cola back into water
Sheets of translucent corrugated plastic reveal the timber framework of this photography studio in Japan by FT Architects, which also features an angular white roof (+ slideshow). More about Photography studio by FT Architects features corrugated plastic walls and a faceted roof
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: German architect Jürgen Mayer H has created a room filled with glowing pink light and ambient pink noise to explore how sleeping patterns could become "more nomadic" in the future (+ slideshow). More about "We need to redefine the sleep cycle" says architect Jürgen Mayer H
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: buildings of the future won't have walls and will instead consist of climate-controlled areas of landscape according to Sean Lally, one of the contributing designers at the Istanbul Design Biennial 2014 (+ slideshow). More about Future architecture will be built from energy says researcher Sean Lally
Pale wooden window frames contrast with the black-stained cedar facades of this extension to a detached house in Nantes by French studio Bertin Bichet Architectes (+ slideshow). More about Nantes house extension contrasts blackened wood facades with pale window frames
Berlin-based Daniel Becker has designed this wooden cabinet for new German startup Kimidori, which makes products exclusively from used industrial pallets (+ slideshow). More about Daniel Becker Design Studio creates furniture from transportation pallets
The pointed roof of this small zinc-covered Tokyo house by Architecture Atelier Akio Takatsuka is offset to reflect the arrangement of rooms inside (+ slideshow). More about Architecture Atelier Akio Takatsuka divides Quad House into unequal sections
Bubble tea drinkers perch on tiers of cork seating around brightly coloured tables at this London cafe by architects Gundry & Ducker (+ slideshow). More about Gundry & Ducker's bubble tea cafe features cork seats and stripy paintwork
NLXL Lab has collaborated with designers including Thomas Eurlings and Piet Hein Eek to create a series of wallpaper patterns and murals. More about NLXL Lab launches one-off wallpaper patterns by designers including Piet Hein Eek
Strips of pre-rusted Corten steel run in vertical columns around this Belgian house by DMOA Architecten (+ movie). More about The Corten House by DMOA architecten is surrounded by weathered steel fins
Dutch Design Week 2014: graduate designer Anne van Galen has created this series of protective headgear and accessories for inhabitants of a fictional world caught in a constant torrential downpour. More about Anne van Galen designs fashion accessories for a "world with endless rainfall"
Dutch Design Week 2014: these cabinets by German designer Meike Harde are made from wire cages to create a "protective environment" for delicate items stored within (+ slideshow). More about Meike Harde's metal-mesh Hybrid Cabinet displays and protects its contents
An overhanging roof with angular cut-outs envelopes the upper storey of this small Japanese house by Moca Architects to conceal the interior spaces (+ slideshow). More about Overhanging roof forms a hood over Japanese house by Moca Architects
Royal College of Art graduates Sasa Stucin and Nicholas Gardner have designed an oval mirror that emits a scented vapour cloud, partly obscuring the reflection as it perfumes the air. More about Lenticularis is a combined mirror and scent diffuser
Music: the story of Adam and Eve is told through acid-colour graphics in this music video for electronic artist Zhu by director Tomek Ducki. More about Tomek Ducki animates Adam and Eve's sinful story like an "underground party"
This school building in Norway was designed by Swedish firm White Arkitekter with copper walls and a zigzagging green roof to reference the forms and materials of a nearby historic industrial town (+ slideshow). More about White Arkitekter adds corrugated copper walls to Norway's Bråtejordet School
Workspaces are differentiated from circulation space by sections of contrasting monochrome paintwork in this Perth studio designed and occupied by Australian firm Post- (+ slideshow). More about "Workspaces are white, passages are black" at Post-'s self-designed architecture studio
Dezeen Guide: things might be winding down towards the end of the year, but there are still design events opening in Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro and Seoul (pictured) this month. More about Dezeen Guide update: November 2014
A glass-fronted stairwell joins a craggy stone Portuguese house to its new concrete extension by Filipe Pina + Maria Inês Costa (+ slideshow). More about Filipe Pina + Maria Inês Costa add concrete extension to stone house in Portugal